05-30-2016, 04:15 PM
(05-29-2016, 09:18 PM)Donovan Wrote: If we lock up animals for our own amusement in order to go and gawk at them, tragedies like this are kind of our fault. The hubris of thinking we are immune to nature's laws. That a wild animal won't snap and eat us if we pet it, give it names, pretend it's our kid, make it do tricks in a water tank, or simply throw it in a cage and parade past it for hours and days and weeks and years.
Amen.
Zoo is in business for profit, not animal preservation that we would all like to believe.
And....
I had a fucking harness on as a kid. People used to laugh when I say that, but if I was that squirelly then I am glad for my parents for keeping me safe.